UN group ponders Greek conflict settlement options
At Lake Success a UN security council sub committee of seven nations reviews proposals on Greece and the Balkans amid warnings of Russian involvement. Delegates aim for a credible solution with a report due next Monday while weighing Bulgaria membership and Indonesia debates.
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Lake
Greece
United Nations
Security Council
Belkens
Moscow
Balkans
Bulgaria
Indonesia
Wiley Says U.S. Will Help if Europe Works
Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin, on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged Europe to spell out exactly what they will do to merit aid under the Marshall proposal. He said cooperation must be clear and open if Washington is to provide support.
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Wiley
U.S
Europe
Cherbourg
France
Alexander Wiley
Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Man Found On Highway With Broken Leg Taken To Hospital
Werner Weefler of Route 2 Belleville was found lying on the highway eight miles north of New Glerus with a broken leg. He received blood plasma after the accident and was reported to be doing well at St. Clare hospital.
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Werner Weefler
Belleville
St. Clare
New Glerus
Waefler
Odom Heads For Globe Circling Record Flight
William P. Odom a 27 year old former British ferry command officer took off at 11 53 am to beat Wiley Post 1933 solo round the world time in a twin engine bomber Odom had previously set a crewed around the world mark of 78 hours 55 minutes aiming for a solo time between 180 and 210 hours Post's record still stands at 186 hours weather conditions affect progress
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Chicago
William P. Odom
Wiley Post
Odom
Appril
Post
USDA Looks Into Food Price Future
The agriculture department projects modest price declines for meat and livestock this fall if incomes stay high. Feed grains may ease later, dairy and eggs rise modestly, and wheat strengthens despite a large harvest. Fruits and vegetables stay below last year with higher potato prices in the coming months.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Insurance School to be Held on Wisconsin Campus
Madison institute on burglary and glass insurance and on automobile material damage and liability insurance sponsored by the Wisconsin Association of Insurance Agents and the University of Wisconsin school of commerce will be held on the campus August 18 to 25.
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Insurance School
Madison
Wisconsin Association of Insurance Agents
The
University of Wisconsin School of Commerce
Federal Cheese Purity Debate Draws Wisconsin Experts
About 250 cheese dealers and makers heard George L. Mooney of the WCMA denounce federal inspectors who target western Wisconsin. He urged inspectors to focus on other food sectors and on foreign cheese imports during a joint meeting with the National Cheese Institute on the federal purity campaign.
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Marshfield
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
National Cheese Institute
George L. Mooney
Plymouth
WCMA
Mooney
Reinstate Control Of Steel Shipments
Washington announces a return to wartime steel export controls on Oct 1 requiring government approval of both importing country and end use. Exporters must seek license for tonnages, while first licensees will target rebuilding basic industries as U S reconstruction spending rises.
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Washington
United States
M. E. Sweeney
Commerce Department
General Products
Sweeney
Attlee Declares War on Do-Nothing Spiv Group
Prime Minister Attlee vows action against the spiv fraternity who profit from easy money, dodging work and avoiding records. The article sketches the spiv as a young man in a sharp suit with black market ties and notes their link to postwar Britain and a broader market boom.
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Attlee
Spiv
London
West End
East End
Ministry of Labor
Britain
Predict Break in Bad Polio Years
A U S public health service official reported that after four bad polio years a break is in sight for 1947 while urging continued precautions through the infantile paralysis season. He cited 1 955 cases up to Aug 2 this year versus 5 450 last year and warned of a potential localized explosive outbreak.
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Frank Carey
Washington
U. S. Public Health Service
Health Service
Port Huron mayor seeks counteroffer for city manager
Port Huron Mayor Frank O Staiger said the city commission would try to counteroffer to keep Leonard G Howell as city manager despite his recent selection to a similar post in Madison Wisconsin announced yesterday.
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Port Huron
Mich
Frank O. Staiger
City Commission
Leonard G. Howell
Madison
Wis
Cheese theft near Chicago shocks Wisconsin driver
Claire Nugent of Boscobel said she slept in her truck trailer parked en route to Chicago and woke to find 20 boxes of cheddar missing. Each box weighed 75 pounds, totaling 1500 pounds. Nugent claimed the cheese was bound for Schmitt Bros. in Cobb, Wisconsin, via Wan Nicke transfer lines. Police investigate the locked trailer burglary.
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Chicago
Claire Nugent
Boscobel
James T. Savage
Nugent
Wannicke Transfer Lines
Schmitt Bros
Cobb
Wis
British Crisis Deepens Over U S Price Rise Crisis
London reports a government official attributes Britain’s worsening crisis to rising U S prices and a swelling surplus of U S exports. Chancellor Hugh Dalton told the House of Commons the world dollar famine stems from America’s heavy foreign sales, while Attlee warns of sacrifices ahead. Lords passes three socialist measures into law on royal assent.
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Ed Creagh
London
U. S
Britain
America
Hugh Dalton
House of Commons
Dalton
Labor
Attlee
Ernest Bevin
House of Lords
100 Bushels of Oats Per Acre Reported in Green County
Threshing in full swing in Green county brings bumper crops with Harold Mohns of Spring Grove township reporting more than 100 bushels of oats per acre. He harvested 2.9 acres of Clinton oats yielding 10,000 pounds, praising the variety’s strong straw and resistance to Victoria blight known as Hell on oats, which has reappeared this year in Green county.
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Green County
Harold Mohns
Spring Grove
Mohns
Clinton
University of Iowa
September Suggested For Jap Peace Meet
Washington reports the United States may invite other nations to a first conference on a Japanese peace treaty in early September. A target date around September 10 is under discussion to precede the United Nations general assembly in New York. Britain and commonwealth nations object to conflicting schedules with their own meetings.
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Washington
United States
United Nations General Assembly
New York
U. N
San Francisco
Wife Fined in Beloit Assault Case Involving Husband
Mrs. Claudia Belle Moore age 28 was fined 300 dollars and costs in municipal court after pleading guilty to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to do great bodily harm. The charge stemmed from a July 25 shooting of her husband Walter Moore 25 who was wounded in both thighs.
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Beloit
Claudia Belle Moore
Moore
Walter
1 349 Children on School Roll
The 1947 census in Union school district No. 1 shows 1 349 children ages 4 to 19, down from 1 376 last year and 86 less than 1938. Of the total, 1 240 attend public schools and 109 attend parochial schools.
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Evelyn Hartwig
Union
Dozens Hurt In Collision Near Litchfield Illinois
A derailment occurred when Illinois Central Green Diamond passenger train collided with a Burlington freight train two miles south of Litchfield Illinois. Twenty five people were injured, 13 hospitalized. Officials suggested the passenger train ran through a signal. five coaches and six freight cars overturned. The Green Diamond was en route from St. Louis to Chicago carrying 150 passengers.
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Illinois Central Railroad
Burlington Railroad
Litchfield
Ill
Springfield
Lester Linck
The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Litchfield, Ul
Illinois Central
Green Diamond
G. A. Sihler
Burlington
Chicago
St. Louis
Wabash
Retired Monroe Cheesemaker Dies at 84
John Glanzman aged 84 a Monroe cheesemaker died after a four year illness at Masshardt convalescent home He was born June 14 1863 in Seedorf Switzerland and immigrated to the United States in 1898 He married Emily Hafen in Freeport in 1905 and retired from cheese making twenty years ago Surviving are his wife two sisters two half brothers and several relatives The funeral is set for 2 30 Saturday at Stuessy funeral home with Rev P C Kehle and interment in Greenwood cemetery.
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John Glanzman
5Th Street
Masshardt
Seedorf
Canton Bern
Switzerland
Christ and
Mary Anne Leiser Glanzman
America
Ohio
Green County
Freeport
Emily Hafen
Glanzman
St. John’s
Fred
Monroe
Stuessy Funeral
P. C. Kehle
St. John’s Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Army to shift to merit based promotion system
President Truman signs legislation creating a permanent promotion by merit program for the army and navy. The measure, a major 80th Congress act, trims high ranking officers, abolishes peacetime five star ranks, and affects about 175 000 officers with parts taking effect after 1951 and others immediately.
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Washington
Army
Truman
Navy
Earthquake Felt Near Milwaukee Reported from Marquette Seismograph
Marquette University seismograph recorded a moderate intensity earthquake about 2 100 miles southwest of Milwaukee overnight. Rev. Joseph Carroll head of the university science department said the quake lasted about 20 minutes.
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Earthquakke
Milwaukee
Marquette University
Joseph Carroll
University Science Department
Father Carroll
Wisconsin aviator presumed drowned after Moose River crash
Gordon Schotz, 25, summer visitor from Wisconsin, died when his cub plane crash landed in the Moose river while he searched for a farmer's stray cow. Officials say the engine stalled and the plane sank with him trapped inside.
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Jackman
Wisconsin
Moose River
Gordon Schotz
Co K Monroe Guard Unit Mobilizes For Week At Camp
Co K Monroe Guard Unit leaves for a week at Camp Douglas with advance detail traveling Friday for convoy duty led by First Lieut Theodore J Burgy and S/Sgt Ivan M Boyer. Sunday departure includes Capt Wilbur Deinenger and a notable three generation Schwitz family. Promotions Aug 1 raise several members to private first class or sergeant.
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Monroe
Camp
Camp Douglas
Co. K
Theodore J. Burgy
Ivan M. Boyer
George A. Neubauer
Dwight C. Coplien
Ernest C. Dettwiler
Forrest L. Kubly
Arthur C. Nondahl
Leslie M. Schwitz
Eugene R. Babler
Harold L. Gissing
Roy Kolb
Harold H. Mauerman
Robert D. Schwitz
Delbert L. Smith
Raymond F. Strehlow
Vernon F. White
Wilbur E. Deininger
George E. Wenger
Hilton E. Kirchner
Glenn L. Kubly
Wil
Liam Niederberger
James Moldenhauer
Frank W. Beck
Albert J. Egger
Herbert C. Flannery
Gerald M. Hauser
Ralph W. Hill
Harold H. Lehnherr
Franklin A. Nichols
Daryl M. Pagel
Charles G. Pickett
Lyle A. Rodger
Milford G. Schwitz
Sheldon C. Zimmerman
Pfc
Orangeville
Ernest C. D2ttwiler
James F. Moldenhauer
William Niederberger
Pfes
Brewster Hughes clash over alleged blackmail and lies
Washington war committee session erupts as Senator Brewster and Howard Hughes trade claims. Hughes calls Brewster lies and accuses him of blackmailing for airline merger talks. Ferguson presses questions while Brewster defends his ties to Pan American and TWA.
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Hughes
Howard Hughes
Senate
Brewster
Trans World
Pan American Airways
Washington
Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate War Investigating
R-Me
United States Senate
Carl Bycir
Maine
Senate War Investigating Committee
Trans World Airlines
Pan American
Senate Subcommittee
TWA
Sam Pryor
Connecticut
Republican National
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